Samantrai, Ranu, review of Deirdre David, Rule Britannia: Women, Empire, and Victorian Writing, in Modern Language Review, 92.4 (1997), pp. 958–59, doi:10.2307/3734236

Samantrai, Ranu, review of Susan Meyer, Imperialism at Home: Race and Victorian Women's Fiction, in Modern Language Review, 93.2 (1998), pp. 482–83, doi:10.2307/3735381

Samantrai, Ranu, review of Jyotsna G. Singh, Colonial Narratives/Cultural Dialogues: 'Discoveries' of India in the Language of Colonialism, in The Text as Evidence: Revising Editorial Principles, ed. by Andrew Gurr (= Yearbook of English Studies, 29.1 (1999)), pp. 341–42, doi:10.2307/3509008

Samantrai, Ranu, review of Ian Baucom, Out of Place: Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of Identity, in Modern Language Review, 96.2 (2001), pp. 478–79, doi:10.2307/3737373